He tells me his family are supporting Mr Trump and he wants to vote Republican, but he's not sure he can back him.

I ask him why he feels differently to his family. College, he says, has opened his eyes to other views and as an economics student, he doesn't think the billionaire businessman has provided enough policy detail.

Mr Trump cannot rely on college educated white voters in the way Republicans traditionally have.

Image:President Barack Obama at a Clinton rally in Cleveland, Ohio, last week

In the wake of a lewd tape and allegations of sexual assault, women voters could also prove problematic.

But not it would seem with his base.

One the roadside, we spot Chris. She's pulled up at a roadside stall to buy her young son a hat emblazoned with the words, "Make America Great Again".

Mr Trump may still hold onto this all important battleground, but dysfunction was rearing its head, with his campaign severing ties with the Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges and accusing him of "duplicity".

Mr Trump says he wants to win, but he's determined to risk doing it his way.